Žižek on the Apocalypse

In an interview with New Scientist, philosopher Slavoj Žižek says that ecology is the new opiate of the masses, the universe’s design is incomplete and Mother Nature is a ‘crazy b*tch’: In response to naturalists who say that technology is the cause of environmental catastrophe, Žižek says: “The fear is that this bad ecology will become a new opiate of the people. And I’m against the ecologists’ anti-technology stance, the one that says,’we are alienated by manipulating nature, we should rediscover ourselves as natural beings’. I think we should alienate ourselves more from nature so we become aware of the utter contingency, the fragility of our natural being.”